The New Policeman

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The New Policeman is a children's fantasy novel by Kate Thompson, published by Bodley Head in 2005. Set in Kinvara, Ireland, it features a teenage boy, J. J. Liddy, who learns that time is leaking from the human world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies.[1] It inaugurated a series that is sometimes referred to as the Liddy series.[2]

Thompson and The New Policeman won two important annual awards, the Whitbread Children's Book Award[3] and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.[4]

The novel also won the inaugural Irish BA Award for Children's Books in 2006.[5]

HarperCollins published the first U.S. edition under its Greenwillow Books imprint in February 2007.[2][6]

A Chinese-language edition was published in 2008 with illustrations and music.[7]

Series

There are three novels in the Liddy series, summing more than 1100 pages in their first editions.[2]

  • The New Policeman (Bodley Head, May 2005, 0-370-32823-X)
  • The Last of the High Kings (Bodley Head, June 2007, 0-370-32925-2)
  • The White Horse Trick (Red Fox, April 2010, 978-1-86230-941-8)

As of September 2011, HarperCollins/Greenwillow has published U.S. editions of all three.

References

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  7. ↑ Xun zhao shi jian de ren (first Chinese edition). WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-08-01.

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